Loading Game Screen.

[Alerhau]

Cannot get a loading screen to pop up when using sleep (Making it look like it's loading).
Why can't I do this? After the loading screen it's supposed to go to another page.
But first it stops on the menu screen. Then it just jumps over to the other page?
Why? How can I fix it?

Kind,
Regards Alexander Hållenius

[Norm]

Is your code blocking the GUI's thread?
Post some sample code so we can see what you are doing.

[Alerhau]

*Clicking Menu Button*

Menu.setVisible(false);
Loading.setVisible(true);
add(Loading);

try{
     Thread.sleep(4000);
} catch(Exception e) {}

Loading.setVisible(false);
NextScreen.setVisible(true);
add(NextScreen);

[Norm]

Sorry, I meant a SSCCE that we can compile and execute to see the problem.

The sleep in your code will block the thread. If it is the GUI's EDT then nothing happens on that thread until your code returns. Try using a Timer in place of the sleep. The code after the sleep should be moved to the Timer's action method to be executed after the Timer has fired.